There was a screwup with domain renewal and backups, which resulted in the downtime while data was recovered. Beyond that, not much more to say, apart from thanks for your patience and concern during the downtime- your interest and continued support is certainly not taken for granted. It's good to be back!
There was a screwup with domain renewal and backups, which resulted in the downtime while data was recovered. Beyond that, not much more to say, apart from thanks for your patience and concern during the downtime- your interest and continued support is certainly not taken for granted. It's good to be back!
If something like this happens again, can the admins PLEASE post a message on the Facebook page or on one of the other sites SFM'rs frequent?
Hey Homer, we'll post as and when we have information to share- we'll do our best to ensure quick communication, but do bear in mind as well that the staff are doing this around families and day jobs too.
It's a challenge all round, and I see both points.
I set up the Facebook page (not sure what to do with it yet or how it relates to SFM proper), but in all honesty we got news it was being worked on and by the time I got to a point where I could post you'd already beaten me to the punch and noted it was back.
Ever since the site came back up after last week's outage I've been getting page redirections every time I click on any of the forum headers. This has been happening on my iPad all week and I just tried it on my PC at work and got another page redirection. Is the site infected with a virus or malware of some kind or was this done as a fund raising effort using click-thru or pay to click? Anybody else seeing this? It only happens when I am on this site and only when I click on the forum headers.
Where on the header, have you looked at the live link (IE what would be shown in the status bar) Have tyou looked at a list of loaded content or scripts?
I have found the following sites attempting to load content.
mfio.cf/
>script
mlvc4zzw.space/1082464/
XML Request
oei1.gq/ ---->loading script
I have since blocked these at the machine level and on my router.
They could be blocked or part of the security tracking etc none have really come up with bad site results. I have yet to see any redirects or spam loading up that is not the typical site things IE google spam. It could be the google stuff as if someone recently found a hole in the filtering.
I have not really seen anything in the site code (cursory glance) so it could be a google script hole that is allowing a full page overlay that captures your activity and redirects to spam etc
I have scripts that block all of this content blocking stuff because too many abuse it as a way to ransom site content. IE get you to do something or give information to access the site. TrekBBS pulled this crap so you cannot access the site at all with any scripts or content mods leaving you open to anything that could creep in from all the 3rd party crap they run.
One that seems to kill most of the overlays is a grease monkey script called anti-adblock killer.
I'm getting the same thing as SeanP. The redirect opens in another tab and I just close it before it gets very far. Doesn't seem like much of a threat, but it is annoying.
Okay, now the redirects are happening when I click through pages in the threads now. This is getting very annoying and from a technical side of things can represent a threat as banners and pages of this type can be easily infected with a virus by an unscrupulous person.
It's a challenge all round, and I see both points.
I set up the Facebook page (not sure what to do with it yet or how it relates to SFM proper), but in all honesty we got news it was being worked on and by the time I got to a point where I could post you'd already beaten me to the punch and noted it was back.
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Seems so...
I'm happy that it's back again and that it wasn't something severe.
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Ah, 'cuse me.
It lives...
Thanks for the explanation.
Hey Homer, we'll post as and when we have information to share- we'll do our best to ensure quick communication, but do bear in mind as well that the staff are doing this around families and day jobs too.
I set up the Facebook page (not sure what to do with it yet or how it relates to SFM proper), but in all honesty we got news it was being worked on and by the time I got to a point where I could post you'd already beaten me to the punch and noted it was back.
I have found the following sites attempting to load content.
mfio.cf/
>script
mlvc4zzw.space/1082464/
XML Request
oei1.gq/ ---->loading script
I have since blocked these at the machine level and on my router.
They could be blocked or part of the security tracking etc none have really come up with bad site results. I have yet to see any redirects or spam loading up that is not the typical site things IE google spam. It could be the google stuff as if someone recently found a hole in the filtering.
I have not really seen anything in the site code (cursory glance) so it could be a google script hole that is allowing a full page overlay that captures your activity and redirects to spam etc
I have scripts that block all of this content blocking stuff because too many abuse it as a way to ransom site content. IE get you to do something or give information to access the site. TrekBBS pulled this crap so you cannot access the site at all with any scripts or content mods leaving you open to anything that could creep in from all the 3rd party crap they run.
One that seems to kill most of the overlays is a grease monkey script called anti-adblock killer.
Though, I sure hope this is being looked into.